Do we need more resources, or do we need to reallocate resources? Two of the recommendations in the Senate report concerned shifting resources around. The first was to reduce the number of senior managers—ADMs, DMs and directors general—in the department to reallocate those savings elsewhere. The second was to push down decision-making to mid-level bureaucrats and away from the bottlenecks that are currently in place because of the concentration of decision-making in senior management.
On December 11th, 2023. See this statement in context.